How to Set Creative New Year’s Resolutions

I thought a practical series of blog posts on how to make your creative dreams a reality could be a great way to get things moving. So this is part one on just how to do that with a focus on goals. Part two will stay focused on the practical with useful steps in how...

A Small Artisan Business Going Carbon Neutral

For quite a while I’ve been thinking about going carbon neutral for Creatively Belle and I’ve finally made the decision to make this happen. For years now I’ve had my household electricity usage at about 55-60% of the standard household for my size...

Making to Inspire

When you’re making something regularly do you find it useful to create in a different medium to refresh the creative spirit? I love photography, quilting and sewing, drawing and painting and find this helps with my creative business (jewelry) but it wasn’t until a...

Wild Inspiration

I watch a great wildlife documentary dvd last night and found it so inspiring – the animals and plant life itself but also the camera work, the composition with the frames, the images and the sheer colors. The movement of the animals in full action is still with me...